Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alienated from society at age 12, without any attempt to ascribe cause or blame. The Four Hundred Blows presents an isolated slice of its hero's life, and the film comes to no set conclusions, contrary to the then-conventional practice of "packaging" the plot. Instead, Truffaut develops the poetic possibilities of his subject, calling on a wide range of visual metaphors to convey his subjective message. In addition, the scene in which the hero is interviewed by a prison psychologist introduced the so-called cinema-verite technique of prolonged interviews which populates many New Wave films...
Demy is interested primarily in what he calls "poetic neorealism,"--a genre whose paradoxical name he has coined, but which could include some of the great directors such as Vigo, Dovjenko, Carne, as well as many of the contemporary Italian inheritors of the postwar tradition of neorealism, such as Antonioni, early Fellini, Pasolini...
...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. An artful and poetic first novel about the holiday affair of two not-too-young, not-too-attractive lovers in Italy...
...Keret. Discovery of Ugaritic epics has cast new light on the poetic forms that were used by authors of the Biblical books-and made it clear that they were well aware of Canaanite mythology. The trials of Job, for example, are similar to those found in an epic about the legendary King Keret of Ugarit. While scholars are still arguing about the precise relationship of the two stories, they do agree that the still unfinished exploration of Ras Shamra is of immeasurable help in clarifying the message of the Old Testament...
...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. A young novelist has chosen her words with such delicacy and precision that even the trite theme of a holiday affair between an inhibited, not-so-young Englishwoman and a smooth, not-so-young Italian architect has become a haunting and poetic tale...